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Alessio Parco

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A new approach to predict the fish fillet shelf-life in presence of natural preservative agents

2017

Three data sets concerning the behaviour of spoilage flora of fillets treated with natural preservative substances (NPS) were used to construct a new kind of mathematical predictive model. This model, unlike other ones, allows expressing the antibacterial effect of the NPS separately from the prediction of the growth rate. This approach, based on the introduction of a parameter into the predictive primary model, produced a good fitting of observed data and allowed characterising quantitatively the increase of shelf-life of fillets.

Preservativelcsh:TP368-456Predictive microbiologyShelf-lifeFood spoilageFish fillets; Natural preservative agents; Predictive microbiology; Shelf-life; Food ScienceFish filletNatural preservative agents04 agricultural and veterinary sciencesAntibacterial effectShelf life040401 food scienceArticleSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)lcsh:Food processing and manufacture0404 agricultural biotechnologyFish filletsFish filletPredictive microbiologyFood scienceFish fillets Shelf-life Natural preservative agents Predictive microbiology.Natural preservative agentMathematicsFood Science
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Phenotypic and genotypic study on antibiotic resistance and pathogenic factors of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from small ruminant mastitis milk in…

2021

Staphyloccoccus aureus is the major cause of mastitis in small ruminants in the Mediterranean farms causing severe losses to dairy industry. Antibiotic treatment has been the most common approach to control these infections. Aim of this study was to investigate antimicrobial resistance (AMR), virulence factors and biofilm-related genes of 84 Sicilian strains of S. aureus isolated from sheep and goats milk during two different periods δT1 (2006-2009) and δT2 (2013-2015). Kirby Bauer method and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) were utilized to monitor AMR and related genes (mecA, tetK, tetM, ermA, ermC). Moreover, toxin genes (tsst-1, sea-see, seg-sej, and sep) and biofilm genes (bap, ica, sas…

Staphylococcus aureusStaphylococcus aureus; Antimicrobial resistance; Virulence factors BiofilmVirulence factorsTetracyclineSulfamethoxazoleSCCmecBiofilmBiologyTP368-456medicine.disease_causemedicine.diseaseAntimicrobial resistanceFood processing and manufactureArticleMicrobiologyMastitisMultiple drug resistanceAntibiotic resistanceStaphylococcus aureusmedicineStaphylococcus aureuVancomycinFood Sciencemedicine.drugItalian Journal of Food Safety
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Validation of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Field Tool for Rapid and Sensitive Diagnosis of Contagious Agalactia in Small Ruminants

2020

Simple Summary Contagious agalactia (CA) is an infectious disease of small ruminants endemic in the Mediterranean countries, causing significant socioeconomic impacts predominantly on small-scale farmers who still subsist on marginal lands. Mycoplasma agalactiae is historically considered the principal etiological agent of CA, especially in sheep. Clinical signs are characterised by mastitis, arthritis, keratoconjunctivitis and occasionally, abortion. Rapid, accurate and cost-effective field tests are urgently needed for effective control of M. agalactiae mastitis. Our study illustrated the validation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) test for the detection of M. agalactiae…

Veterinary medicinelcsh:Veterinary medicineGeneral Veterinaryved/biologyMycoplasma agalactiaeCommunicationfield diagnostic testved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species<i>mycoplasma agalactiae</i>p40 geneLoop-mediated isothermal amplificationDiagnostic testBiologyMycoplasma agalactiaeLAMPFluorometersmall ruminantlcsh:Zoology<i>p40</i> genelcsh:SF600-1100Animal Science and Zoologylcsh:QL1-991small ruminantsTarget geneAnimals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
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